In an effort to keep pace with its Western rivals, the huge Chinese-based multinational Alibaba now has its own Large Language Model (LLM) to rival ChatGPT. As part of the company's cloud computing service Alibaba Cloud, the AI writer (opens in new tab) will be available to select customers - for now - to use for all sorts of tasks, from summarizing meetings to controlling smart speakers. Just like the popular ChatGPT, Tongyi Qianwen, to give it its full name, can be given short instructions or prompts in natural language to automatically generate new content and perform other complex tasks...